You mean film stars Darryl Hannah and Mariel Hemingway managed to draw all of 200 people[1] Tuesday to Denver’s Civic Center to protest hydraulic fracturing? Why, you could probably get 200 people out to protest fluoridated water.

Still, the protest was instructive in one respect. As The Denver Post reported, “speaking to the crowd Tuesday, Sam Schabacker, an organizer with Food and Water Watch, said, ‘Fracking has no place in Colorado.'”

Notice: No place. He doesn’t want it regulated more rigorously. He wants it banned — and, since the vast majority of wells are now fracked, with it would go much of the oil and gas industry in Colorado.

But look on the bright side: Maybe without oil and gas we wouldn’t have to endure so many energy intensive visits from Hollywood activists.